Stories
- Article
Surviving a flesh-eating disease
Nearly dying from a skin infection gave Scott Neill a chance to start again after an early life marked by grief and depression.
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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack
Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.
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Medics and the bomb
Would a nuclear attack on the UK overwhelm the NHS? At the height of the Cold War, despite government optimism, medics predicted doom.
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
From scarred outsiders in literature to the cold voyeurism of medical films and photography, people who experience seizures and epilepsy are rarely shown in a compassionate light in popular culture.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Hereditary Disease Foundation
Date: 1995Reference: SB/1/2/362Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Dupont - Viral Disease Group
Date: 1989Reference: SB/4/1/128Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Cure Huntington's Disease Dinner (8 November 1989)
Date: 1989Reference: JDW/2/15/47Part of: James D. Watson Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Mouse Model for Alzheimer's Disease - Patent
Date: 1989-1990Reference: SB/4/1/465Part of: Sydney Brenner Collection- Archives and manuscripts
Cancer - A Controllable Disease through Genomic Knowledge
Date: c.2002Reference: JDW/2/3/1/93Part of: James D. Watson Collection